CHAPTER XIII. 



THE GREAT DANE. 



Here is a dog, not an English animal, but one 

 thoroughly acclimatised to the rigours of our climate, 

 and fairly naturalised. Still, it seems as it were only 

 the other day (it is nearly thirty years since) that 

 ''Stonehenge" (Mr. J. H. Walsh) refused to give it a 

 place in the first edition of his ^' Dogs of the British 

 Isles," which Mr. F. Adcock then requested him to 

 do. 



I do not think that this dog (under which name, 

 following the Great Dane Club's good example, I 

 include boarhounds, German mastiffs, and tiger 

 mastiffs) has made great progress here. Fifteen 

 years since he appeared in a fair way to become a 

 favourite. The ladies took him up, the men patron- 

 ised him, but the former could not always keep him 

 in hand. Handsome and symmetrical though he 

 may be, he had always a temper and disposition of 

 his own, which could not be controlled when he 

 became excited. Personally, I never considered the 



